Hosea 9:3

Hosea 9:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
• New International Version (NIV)They will not remain in the Lord’s land; Ephraim will return to Egypt and eat unclean food in Assyria.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They shall not dwell in the Lord’s land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

Context of Hosea 9:3

1Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast played the harlot from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every threshingfloor. 2The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her. They shall not dwell in the LORD’S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria. 4They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing to him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat of it shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. 5What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

Hosea 9:3 word by word

לֹ֥א יֵשְׁב֖וּ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ יְהוָ֑ה וְשָׁ֤ב אֶפְרַ֙יִם֙ מִצְרַ֔יִם וּבְאַשּׁ֖וּר טָמֵ֥א יֹאכֵֽלוּ׃Read the interlinear

• dwellיָשַׁבyâshab · to dwellH3427
• LORD’Sיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• Ephraimאֶפְרַ֫יִם'ephrayim · EphraimH669
• returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• Egyptמִצְרַ֫יִםmitsrayim · EgyptH4714
• eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• uncleanטָמֵאţâmê' · uncleanH2931
• Assyriaאַשּׁוּר'ashshûr 'ashshûr · AssyriaH804

Cross-references for Hosea 9:3

• Leviticus 18:28That the land may not spue you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
• Leviticus 20:22Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, where I bring you to dwell in it, may not spue you out.
• Deuteronomy 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from the land where ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall be utterly destroyed.
• Deuteronomy 28:63And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land where thou goest to possess it.
• Joshua 23:15Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he hath destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
• 1 Kings 9:7Then will I cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people:
• Micah 2:10Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a grievous destruction.
• Leviticus 25:23The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
• Jeremiah 2:7And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
• Jeremiah 16:18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled my inheritance with the dead bodies of their detestable and abominable things.
• Hosea 9:6For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.
• Hosea 8:13They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and judge their sins: they shall return to Egypt.
• Hosea 11:5He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
• Deuteronomy 28:68And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I have said to thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold to your enemies for male and female slaves, and no man shall buy you .
• Isaiah 11:15And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
• Ezekiel 4:13And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, where I will drive them.

Commentaries on Hosea 9:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3But Ephraim shall return to Egypt - See on Hosea 8:12; (note).Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3They shall not dwell in the Lord‘s land. The earth is the Lord‘s and the fulness thereof - Yet He had chosen the land of Canaan, there to place His people; there, above others, to work His miracles; there to reveal Himself; there to send His Son to take our flesh. He had put Israel in possession of it, to hold it under Him on condition of obedience. Contrariwise, God had denounced to them again and again; “if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3God would send the Israelites into exile in Assyria in 722 BC. There, in a land considered unclean, they would eat food that was ceremonially unclean. This would separate them even more from their covenant with the Lord.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. return to Egypt--(See on Ho 8:13). As in Ho 11:5 it is said, "He shall not return into ... Egypt." Fairbairn thinks it is not the exact country that is meant, but the bondage state with which, from past experience, Egypt was identified in their minds. Assyria was to be a second Egypt to them. De 28:68, though threatening a return to Egypt, speaks (De 28:36) of their being brought to a nation which neither they nor their fathers had known, showing that…Read the comment

Topics related to Hosea 9:3

• Assyria
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In the dictionaries

• Assyria
• Egypt
• Ephraim
• Assyria, Assyrian, Assyrian Empire
• Egypt, Egyptian
• Ephraim, Ephraimite
• Cornfloor
• Deeply
• Depart
• Mad

Commentaries on Hosea 9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings